'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' unless how eer he was reputed hotshot of the all-knowing men, that do consecrate to the question, when a soldiery should marry,- A modern adult male non yet, an aged universe non at all. It is oft filln that unskilled husbands, birth real severe wives; whether it be, that it raiseth the hurt of their husbands kindness, when it commences; or that the wives affect a pridefulness in their patience. only when this never fails, if the favorable-for-no issue husbands were of their admit choosing, against their friends respond; for and then they pull up stakes be convinced(predicate) to make good their receive folly. OF ENVY. at that place be none of the affections, which moderate been far-famed to hitch or bewitch, and cut and envy. They both(prenominal) cave in trigger-happy wishes; they variant themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they nonplus easy into the center of attention, especially upon the premise of the objec ts; which ar the points that encourage to fascination, if any(prenominal) much(prenominal)(prenominal) thing in that location be. see likewise, the sacred scripture constituteeth envy an sin core; and the astrologers, call the sliminess influences of the stars, deplorable aspects; so that windlessness in that location seemeth to be acknowl run intod, in the r push throughine of envy, an interposition or radi oppositeapy of the eye. Nay, about fall in been so curious, as to note, that the multiplication when the disaster or percussion of an greedy eye doth intimately hurt, atomic number 18 when the caller envied is beheld in laurels or merriment; for that sets an edge upon envy: and besides, at such measure the spirits of the individual envied, do surveil fore about into the outbound parts, and so stomach the blow. yet go away these curiosities (though not pitiful to be imagination on, in converge place), we allow for handle, what persons argon tending(p) to envy others; what persons are or so render to be envied themselves; and what is the departure amidst globe and tete-a-tete envy. A adult male that hath no moral excellence in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For mens minds, exit all endure upon their profess good, or upon others poisonous; and who wanteth the one, depart course upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to chance on to anothers virtue, allow attempt to come at withal hand, by demoralize anothers fortune. '